This is an old revision of the document!
What is Learning
Definitions of Learning
There is no single accepted definition of learning, since it depends on one's point of view. Most commonly accepted learning paradigms suggest learning is:
a visible change in one's behavior which can be measured
1)
the active process of acquisition (including insight, information processing, memory, perception) of new knowledge and developing adequate mental constructions
2)
a natural desire of human beings, a mean of self-actualization and developing personal potentials
3)
an active, socially enhanced process of knowledge construction based on one's own subjective interpretation of the objective reality
4)
the process of connecting to information sources containing actionable knowledge and maintaining those connections
5)
Some other definitions of learning we found useful are listed here:
“acquiring new or modifying existing knowledge, behaviors, skills, values, or preferences and may involve synthesizing different types of information.”
6)
“all relatively permanent changes in potential for behavior that result from experience but are not due to fatigue, maturation, drugs, injury, or disease.”
7)
“a relatively permanent change in behavior due to experience. This refers to a change in behavior, an external change that we can observe.”
8)
“a relatively permanent change in mental associations due to experience. This definition focuses on a change in mental associations, an internal change that we cannot observe.”
9)